The Senate impeachment trial wrapped up for the day as President Trump’s legal team concluded the first day of their opening arguments for why the president should be acquitted.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shook hands with members of Trump’s legal defense team before heading out of the chamber Saturday as other Republicans also were seen talking with the lawyers after the trial initially got underway about 10 a.m., following final arguments by Democratic House managers which wrapped up late Friday.

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Responses came quickly from both sides by way of lengthy press conferences and tweets. Here are just a few examples:

Schiff coup cabal shredded by @realDonaldTrump defense team that relied on facts, evidence and the rule of law. They can rest their case now. #TrumpDefense

Before McConnell even began the session, which he estimated would last about three hours, Trump was already fired up.

The president tweeted an attack on Democrats which included a number of nicknames aimed at impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, Senate minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and even Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

He also poked at the whole “Democrat Party” as well as “Fake News” CNN and “MSDNC” (MSNBC).

Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone began this morning saying he did not “anticipate using that much time” since Democrats had not “come anywhere close to meeting their burden for what they’re asking you to do.”

“They’re asking you not only to overturn the results of the last election but as I’ve said before, they’re asking you to remove President Trump from the ballot in an election that’s occurring in approximately nine months,” he told senators.

“They’re asking you to tear up all of the ballots across this country on your own initiative, take that decision away from the American people, and I don’t think they spent one minute of their 24 hours talking to you about the consequences of that for our country,” Cipollone added.

Cipollone:

Democrats are asking you—not only to overturn the results of the last election, but—to remove @realdonaldtrump from the ballot in an election that occurs in 9 months.

He confronted democrats on their impeachment efforts and their own apparent lack of confidence in their case against Trump.

Trump’s Deputy Counsel Mike Purpura then argued that he was being forced to defend the president on a record “based entirely on House Democratic facts pre-cleared in a basement bunker. Not mostly — entirely.”

“Yet even those facts exonerate the president,” he told lawmakers.

Purpura spoke of the Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president and that burden-sharing and corruption were discussed, as the White House tweeted the slides he was using.

He mocked Democrats for their lengthy arguments while calling them out for their silence when the administration placed holds on aid to other countries, including Afghanistan, Lebanon, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Jay Sekulow: President Trump Has Placed Holds On Aid A Number Of Times

Deputy Counsel Patrick Philbin spoke about the unprecedented impeachment inquiry which was launched without a full House vote.

“Speaker Pelosi did not have the authority to delegate the power of the House to those committees on her own,” he said, going on to target Rep. Adam Schiff as an “interested fact witness” because of his connection to the initial whistleblower.

Over their 3 days, House Democrats cherry-picked evidence, cut testimony out of context, and even flat-out lied.

The President’s lawyers are now showing Americans what the Democrats wouldn’t.

These facts aren’t just inconvenient for Democrats—they are fatal to their case.

In a visual difference from the first days of the trial which saw hours of speeches by Democrats, prompting lawmakers to walk around, chat, and even take on crossword puzzles to stay awake, the chamber on Saturday was full, according to NBC News which reported that “nearly every Democratic senator was taking notes throughout.”

Trump’s legal team is on the floor methodically shredding the impeachment case. Turns out, things aren’t so slam dunk for House Democrats when the President gets a chance to respond.